Jackson County prosecutors filed five felony charges against a 26-year-old man in connection with a case that led to a short police standoff Tuesday.Nicholas A. Romero is charged with first-degree assault, forcible rape, two counts of forcible sodomy and attempted forcible sodomy. Prosecutors asked that he be held in lieu of $100,000 bond.In court documents, police accused Romero of going to a woman's apartment in the 1000 block of Grand Avenue, raping, sodomizing and choking the woman. A neighbor called police after hearing screams and what sounded like someone being thrown into a wall.According to court documents, Romero pretended to be the victim when police arrived. The woman fled the apartment and Romero broke through a window and hid in an electrical room for several hours.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

Jackson County prosecutors filed five felony charges against a 26-year-old man in connection with a case that led to a short police standoff Tuesday.

Nicholas A. Romero is charged with first-degree assault, forcible rape, two counts of forcible sodomy and attempted forcible sodomy. Prosecutors asked that he be held in lieu of $100,000 bond.

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In court documents, police accused Romero of going to a woman's apartment in the 1000 block of Grand Avenue, raping, sodomizing and choking the woman. A neighbor called police after hearing screams and what sounded like someone being thrown into a wall.

According to court documents, Romero pretended to be the victim when police arrived. The woman fled the apartment and Romero broke through a window and hid in an electrical room for several hours.